Ditte: daughter of man /
Andersen Nexø, Martin, 1869-1954.
Ditte: daughter of man / by Martin Andersen Nexö; translated from the Danish by A. G. Chater and Richard Thirsk. - New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 1921 - iv, 385 pages ; 20 cm.
This book is proceeded by one book in a series, Ditte: Girl Alive, and followed by one sequel, Ditte: Towards the Stars
The Fall: I. Among strangers -- II. Homesickness -- III. Ditte's mistress -- IV. A welcome visitor -- V. Ditte visits home -- VI. The maid with the rosy cheeks -- VII. Winter darkness -- VIII. Winter runs its tedious course -- IX. A summer day -- X. Sorine comes home -- XI. Ditte consults a fellow-creature -- XII. Summer is brief -- XIII. The heart -- XIV. The end of big Klaus -- XV. Home again -- XVI. The son from the hill farm -- XVII. Ditte basks in the sun -- XVIII. The feast -- XIX. * * * * * -- Purgatory: XX. Why doesn't the lass get married? -- XXI. Out in the wide world -- XXII. The maternity home -- XXIII. The angels -- XXIV. Ditte makes one of the family -- XXV. Ditte is promoted to the rank of parlor-maid -- XXVI. Homeless! -- XXVII. Karl's face -- XXVIII. Ditte's day -- XXIX. Spring -- XXX. Good days -- XXXI. Ditte plucks roses -- XXXII. The dog -- XXXIII. George and Ditte -- XXXIV. The reckoning.
"How few are the really first-rate novels interpreting a working woman's life! There is, of course, Martin Anerson Nexo's classic "Ditte," and there is - well, there is "Ditte."...Ditte is never poor in spirit, even from her early days as an unwanted, illegitimate child. Her aging grandparents who take her to live with them see life afresh through her wondering eyes and her fingers reaching out to explore the world about her. Later, Ditte is adopted by the kindly, naïve Lars Peter, the rag and bone man, looked down upon by well-to-do and poor alike as the least successful citizen in their midst. Going to live in Lars Peter's leaking, dilapidated "Cow's Nest," Ditte makes of it a shining home and becomes "Little Mother" to the younger children in the family...Ditte, growing up into young womanhood, is revealed in her complexities, her doubts and her rainbow joys. She participates in all experiences, hers is no shallow stream of consciousness, but a plunging into the moving current of life." -- From the book jacket.
Translated from Danish into English.
024318509X 97800243185092
21018807
Denmark--Fiction.
PZ 3 .N49 / D 1921
Ditte: daughter of man / by Martin Andersen Nexö; translated from the Danish by A. G. Chater and Richard Thirsk. - New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 1921 - iv, 385 pages ; 20 cm.
This book is proceeded by one book in a series, Ditte: Girl Alive, and followed by one sequel, Ditte: Towards the Stars
The Fall: I. Among strangers -- II. Homesickness -- III. Ditte's mistress -- IV. A welcome visitor -- V. Ditte visits home -- VI. The maid with the rosy cheeks -- VII. Winter darkness -- VIII. Winter runs its tedious course -- IX. A summer day -- X. Sorine comes home -- XI. Ditte consults a fellow-creature -- XII. Summer is brief -- XIII. The heart -- XIV. The end of big Klaus -- XV. Home again -- XVI. The son from the hill farm -- XVII. Ditte basks in the sun -- XVIII. The feast -- XIX. * * * * * -- Purgatory: XX. Why doesn't the lass get married? -- XXI. Out in the wide world -- XXII. The maternity home -- XXIII. The angels -- XXIV. Ditte makes one of the family -- XXV. Ditte is promoted to the rank of parlor-maid -- XXVI. Homeless! -- XXVII. Karl's face -- XXVIII. Ditte's day -- XXIX. Spring -- XXX. Good days -- XXXI. Ditte plucks roses -- XXXII. The dog -- XXXIII. George and Ditte -- XXXIV. The reckoning.
"How few are the really first-rate novels interpreting a working woman's life! There is, of course, Martin Anerson Nexo's classic "Ditte," and there is - well, there is "Ditte."...Ditte is never poor in spirit, even from her early days as an unwanted, illegitimate child. Her aging grandparents who take her to live with them see life afresh through her wondering eyes and her fingers reaching out to explore the world about her. Later, Ditte is adopted by the kindly, naïve Lars Peter, the rag and bone man, looked down upon by well-to-do and poor alike as the least successful citizen in their midst. Going to live in Lars Peter's leaking, dilapidated "Cow's Nest," Ditte makes of it a shining home and becomes "Little Mother" to the younger children in the family...Ditte, growing up into young womanhood, is revealed in her complexities, her doubts and her rainbow joys. She participates in all experiences, hers is no shallow stream of consciousness, but a plunging into the moving current of life." -- From the book jacket.
Translated from Danish into English.
024318509X 97800243185092
21018807
Denmark--Fiction.
PZ 3 .N49 / D 1921